@Aginor@n810@tom ndege@NIGHTBRINGER
Haha, thank you I hope you like him sadly I'm away from town, so I can return to painting him only tomorrow evening. I found this cool tutorial by @neveroddoreven of how to paint a skink - will try to replicate the scales pattern on him. Also will try nmm gold, which will be my first attempt at painting non metallic metal. Wish me luck!

I Love how you add so much character and expression to this miniature it is a completely new sculpt that far surpasses the stiff GW models he seems ancient and wise while extremely dangerous in close combat.

@Warden
That was my initial intention for him a calm general smoking his pipe, ready to knock some skulls if the necessity comes. I'm glad I could maintain that vibe!

@Essmir
Thank you! Yeh, the overall quality of the GW sculpts was probably the main reason why I decided to take on my own sculpts for saurus. I've received a few proposals on copying them, so I might consider doing that in a distant future (not sooner than 1,5 year though).

Now guys. The progress on the oldblood is really slow. And it got even slower because I'm painting fifty miniatures in a row along with him. Yet I don't want this blog to get stalled, so I'd like to share some progress with you:

His torso is almost done and now I'm struggling with his carapace. I want to add purple to the shadow a nd hidden areas and highlight the upper parts a bit more, so it'll take good few days to finish this miniature. But overall, I like where this is heading.

Hopefully I will post 6 converted ripperdactyls and a salamander of my own (dunno what comes first: them or the oldblood).

@Warden
That's what I'm aiming at! I've alrady painted the golden parts and they turned out to be rather old-looking. But the miniature itself is far from over, sadly(

@PhoenixTheCat
I think that normally he would slither for "slow walk", in case he's not rushing anywhere. But for running he uses legs.
Either way, he would use both legs and tail as his "foothold" for greater balance in close combat, giving his size and the weight of his equipment (I haven't posted a comparison picture yet, but he is 1,5-2 times bigger than the original GW oldblood).

This miniature took heluva time to paint. And still I consider it not being finished just yet. There are a few things here and there I will improve later on. But overall, he's ready to be fielded and considered to be mostly painted, haha. And now I have 3 characters to lead my force into battle:

Not bad, but I'd really like to speed up the process a little bit. Next will be my skirmishers (20 in a row) and then - saurus.
Finally, I picture of size comparision of the original saurus model and my oldblood conversion. He looks quite impressive I believe:

This miniature took heluva time to paint. And still I consider it not being finished just yet. There are a few things here and there I will improve later on. But overall, he's ready to be fielded and considered to be mostly painted, haha. And now I have 3 characters to lead my force into battle:

Not bad, but I'd really like to speed up the process a little bit. Next will be my skirmishers (20 in a row) and then - saurus.
Finally, I picture of size comparision of the original saurus model and my oldblood conversion. He looks quite impressive I believe:

@ravagekitteh
Haha, well let's hope the rest of my collection won't take that long to paint

@Warden
Indeed. I hope to finish my unit somewhere 'til the end of September.

@Crowsfoot
Well, it wasn't something spectacular to paint actually (just lots and lots of accuracy and patience). I base coated wooden parts with Vallejo German Black Brown, and then started drawing thin lines with a mix with Vallejo Cold Grey simulating texture towards the upper part of the shield. First run was with the mix of something like 5 parts Black Brown + 1 part Cold Grey, then 4+1, then 3+1 etc. When I reached 1+1 mix, I added 1 part of German Camo Beige to add a little more highlights. That's pretty much it. Hope it'll help you

@Aginor
Thank you! Although I find it maybe a bit too bulky for a saurus - but hey, why not, after all!